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...dolls have no needs (not for air, food or fuel, although they find an occasional lightbulb useful) and neither do the machines, so you'd think everyone could go to their respective corners and mind their own business while enjoying the stinking remains of human society. Instead, the dolls, led by Number 9, get roped into fighting mankind's last battle for them by trying to take down the machines. What the point of such an effort is remains unclear. Even the characters are confused. "What happens now?" one asks at the end. "I'm not sure," says another...
...study in the Sept. 10 edition of Science makes the case for widespread and speedy immunization, suggesting that doing so could stifle the pandemic. A team of researchers led by Ira Longini, a biostatistician at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, used data from earlier H1N1 outbreaks this year in the U.S. and Mexico to model how the pandemic is likely to unfold this fall. The team found that by first vaccinating children, then adults, until 70% of the U.S. population is covered, officials would be able to all but stop the pandemic...
...Warhol” of the internet world by New York Magazine, Harris commissioned his artist friends to do as they pleased in the Factory-esque office space of Pseudo. His unorthodox management style (which included dressing up as a clown when investors toured the office) eventually led to the company’s bankruptcy in 2000; Harris even fled to Africa to avoid mounting debt. Despite his disappearance, his many endeavors have not gone unnoticed, thanks to American filmmaker Ondi Timoner and her latest documentary, “We Live in Public.” Timoner presented the film...
...their lives on the internet for 100 days. At first it seemed fun, even practical—Tanya could ask the camera if anyone had seen her keys, and a viewer could answer her via web chat on the show’s website—but ultimately it led to the couple’s violent break-up. Although he accompanied Timoner to Sundance, Harris has yet to see “We Live in Public,” which features surveillance footage from his experiments, archived media coverage, and numerous interviews with his colleagues, friends, and subjects...
...play or two every semester that I was an undergraduate,” he recalls. “And then after I graduated, I worked at the A.R.T. and taught at the Institute for Advanced Theater Training [during] its very first year.”Further postgraduate endeavors led Cutler to produce “The War Room”—a documentary directed by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus about Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign—followed by a string of other producing credits, including “Thin...